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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Anders Logg wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0200, Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shawn Walker<walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Has anyone experienced this error:
> > >
> > > Plotting v (unnamed function), press 'q' to continue...
> > > Read data
> > > End Read data
> > > ERROR: In /home/walker/src/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 359
> > > vtkIdTypeArray (0x111604a0): Unable to allocate 326417515851 elements of
> > > size 8 bytes.
> > >
> > > when running any of the dolfin demos with python?
> > >
> > > I saw an message from Anders saying that he got this error too.  I have no
> > > idea what is causing this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > I've gotten a lot of these reports lately, but I'm not able to
> > reproduce the bug on my 64 bit Ubuntu Hardy machines. There might be
> > some problems with your VTK installation or something related to the
> > versions of Python and VTK your're using.
>
> I get something similar:
>
> ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.2.1/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 341
> vtkIdTypeArray (0x2a3a600): Unable to allocate 4294967817 elements of size 8 bytes.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala (AMD64) on a 64 bit laptop.
>
> --
> Anders

I'm running red-hat enterprise linux (64-bit INTEL).  I have the most up 
to date FENICS, and I have VTK 5.5 installed.  Did I miss some kind of VTK 
64-bit switch compile option?

- Shawn